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A few months into the pandemic, around the middle of summer, I was getting bored. Not bored in terms of nothing to do, but surprisingly, I was getting tired of ads. After watching hours of YouTube and Snapchat every day for months, the ads that I saw became repetetive, and I was really getting tired of them. I was noticing the ads more than the videos I was watching, and I just got tired of it. As a result, I started moving towards more fulfilling things, like being out in nature and playing music on my piano. Surprisingly, I didn't force myself to do these things like I did in the beginning of the pandemic, but they just came naturally to me. The crumpled up magazine page in the corner represents my rejection of advertisements, and the central focus of my piano represents moving on to higher, more fulfilling, natural things.
October 6, 2020
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For many people, the pandemic put travel plans on pause. What about you? Are you traveling, or planning to travel, again? If so, when, where, and under what conditions?
I have plans to go to the US in October to see my family for the first time since January 2020. I am praying that the US doesn't become a 'red' country for the UK; that numbers don't get too high that it is unsafe for us to travel. I miss my family a lot. I am also supposed to go to a conference and see family (again who I haven't seen since January 2020) in Israel in November. Again hoping they let people from the UK in, that Israel doesn't become a 'red' country, that the numbers don't get too high to travel. I have never met my nephew and just learned there is a new one on the way. I have lived abroad for the better part of my life since 2008. I always knew when I would be back in the US to see my family. I always knew that if I needed to get back, I could. This has all changed that. I have never been away from my family for this long - ever. I have never been worried that I wouldn't get to see them (well, I was, but it was the thing I would have nightmares about and make me hesitant to travel).
August 12, 2021